QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Bring in as price (5) 4 Severe rebuke (4,3) 8 Desert a cause (3) 9 Big guns (9) 10 Late in arriving (7) 11 Watching by night (5) 13 Poorly made (6) 15 Suave (6) 18 Conjecture (5) 19 Available from the publisher (2,5) 21 Having no money at all (4,5) 23 Unit of weight (3) 24 Beseech (7) 25 Bout of merrymaking (5)

DOWN

1 Containing iron (7) 2 Prominent (2,3,4) 3 An amassed store (5) 4 Become dry and shrivelled (6) 5 Covering entire surface (3,4) 6 Enemy (3) 7 In service of the crown (5) 12 A trained sword-fighter (9) 14 Deprive of ability to function (7) 16 An international understanding (7) 17 Become extinct (3,3) 18 Indiscreet remark (5) 20 Newspapers collectively (5) 22 Operate effectively (3)